Rationalizing a Firefly - Serenity type setting

[Hans Rancke-Madsen]

Originally Posted by combatmedic

Causality violations! ;)

You spend X days in your FTL starship going to some neighboring system. You spend Y days there. You spend X days going home. You arrive home 2X+Y days after you left. Where's the causality violation? There's no overt causality violation there. It's all buried in a slew of scientific mumbo-jumbo. Narratively there is no causality violation; indeed, there is no possibility of any causality violation.


Hans